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B. O. LOTT. WIRE FENCE No. 531,688. Patented Jan. 1, 1895.

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EDWARD C. LOTT, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE 1. L. ELLVVOOD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE FENCE.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,688, dated January 1, 1895.

Application filed August 17, 1894:- Serial No. 520,575, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. Lorr, of De Kalb, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of fences which are composed of cables forming the longitudinal strands, said cables being connected by transverse tie or stay wires interwoven therewith at the points of crossing. Fences of this character are known, but my improvement relates to certain features of construction of the stay or tie wires and the mode of connecting them with the cable wires so as to prevent relative movement of the stays and cables on each other.

To this end my invention consists in the combination of a series of parallel cable wires and a series of tie or stay wires each having a plurality of strands, one of the strands being straight and embraced between the strands of the cables, and the other strand of the tie or the stay being wrapped about the straight member between the cables. The stays may be made from short wires or from a continuous wire, and in the accompanying drawings I have shown these various methods of construction.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a section of fencing in which the stays are composed of continuous wires. Fig. 2 shows two modifications, one consisting in forming the stay of a wire doubled upon itself and having one strand wrapped about the other, and the other showing two short wires forming the stay, one being straight and the other wrapped.

In the drawings, A A represent longitudinal cables, of which any number will be employed, depending upon the height of the fence desired. Usually the cables are arranged closer together at the bottom of the fence than at the top. Each cable is composed in the present instance of two strands a, a and the stays are also composed of two strands B B. The memberB is straight but is engaged between the strands a, a of the cable, being fed in between them during the twisting, while the member B is wrapped around the straight member.

As shown in Fig.1 of the drawings, the stays are formed from continuous wires which are carried along the top and bottom cables and might be coiled around them. The wrapping of the strand B around the strand B will prevent vertical movement of the cables upon the stay wires, while permitting the cables to be stretched over uneven ground without bending or buckling the stay wires.

I am aware that it has been proposed to employ a stay composed of a plurality of wires twisted together between the cables and in which the strands of the cable embrace one of the strands of the stay and the strands of the stay embrace one of the strands of the cable. My construction is simpler in that one of the members of the stay is not twisted at all but can be laid in perfectly straight while the other member is simply wrapped around the straight member, and forms a loose connection, but one which will prevent movement of the stay wires and cables with reference to each other.

In Fig. 2 two modifications in the construction of the stays are shown. At the left of the View the stay is composed of a single wire doubled upon itself and interwoven with the strands of the cable at the top of the fabric, its straight member being also embraced by the strands of ghe other cables and the other member coiled" around it. In this construction also the free end of the coiled or wrapped member B is twisted closely about the projected end of the straight member. In the construction shown at the right of the view the stay is composed of two independent wires of such length as to extend across the fabric from side to side and having their ends secured by wrapping with the cables.

It will be understood that other modifications than those shown may be made, and that in a fabric designed for a field fence at larger number of cables would be employed and the stays would be correspondingly lengthened.

It will be understood also that this fabric posed of a plurality of wires, one of the stay 10 may be used for other purposes than fencing, wires being straight and embraced by the and therefore, strands of the cable and the other being Without limiting my invention to precise wrapped about the straight member between 5 details of construction or the specified use, I the cables, substantially as described.

c1aim- EDWARD O. LOTT.

A woven wire fabric, comprising in eoinbi- Witnesses:

nation a series of parallel cable strands and FRANZ G. LUNDBERG, a series of transverse ties or stays each com- ARTHUR W. SPRAGUE. 

